Hatch

Hatch (1): 模擬創業 — 產品開發

在Creative Founder課堂上，由Kate Rutter教授指導的12週 (2018秋季)團隊專案。

Hatch (2): Pitch Day

The pitch got us 9/11 venture capitalists’ funding, totaling the investment to…

Hatch (1): Startup Simulation — Product Development

It is a 12-week group project in the Creative…

Early Interviews (Week 1)

I remember that when I was filling out team matching survey, I said that I am interested in education and civic rights. Later when I found out that the teammates I am assigned to are also interested in those topics, I was quite surprised and excited. We had many ideas and eventually…

Product Concept refinement & validation (Week 3)

We eventually run out our social connections and started reaching out to illustrators that we didn’t know. My way of searching junior illustrators was messaging the ones whose follower were lower than 10k. Luckily, it turned out that I was…

Product Concept Refinement & Validation (Week 4)

I could feel that we weren’t very confident about our original MVP, but we still ended up deciding to stick with the original plan and tested how it went. Even though the interview results for this week were similar to the previous ones…

Burn rate, BMC, Culture (Week 7)

This week I finally felt that everything was more certain. We were not as confused as we were before and started to test out MVP and figured out our financial model. As our current MVP hasn’t gotten as much traction yet, I feel we are a little bit behind as the deadline…

HATCH Exit Story: IPO (Initial Public Offering)

In 2018, 10 years ago, we, four co-founders, were all students at California college of the arts who took a class called Creative founder. In that class, we came up with an idea of creating a skills exchange platform for students. At the very…

Experiments (Week 8)

For this week, it was both physically and mentally tired for us to run the experiments. Before the experiments, I was a bit confused about the product’s direction, especially during these busy time. However, by putting our MVP out there for people to interact with it, it helped me clarify my…

Customer story & Challenges (Week 9)

This week, we tried to continue what we were doing on last week: experiments. Even though we successfully reached many people and got many sign-ups, we had trouble to contact them afterwards to invite them to participate in our experiments. As our MVP required two…